28 thoughts on “(Tested) ASUS GeForce GT 440 Review”

Nice review, thanks! It does a good job of showing how you can get much better performance by spending just a little more money. 5670 and 450 would have been good for comparison though. Also, can you please run the 5770 crossfire setup through all benchmarks in the future? I would especially like to see how it impacts tessellation. I’m considering either selling my 5770 and going to a 6870 or 560, or getting another 5770. Seems like 5770 crossfire might be a good choice. Love the site, keep up the good work.

Unless the price is very low I don’t see how this 440 can compete. I did not see any listed yet, but (if you actually get the rebate) you can get a 5670 for US$60, a GTS450 for $95, and a 5770 for $110. A google conversion says 90 euros is US$ 122.

Actually there is a market for the GT440, and that’s in the Media Center/Home Theatre PC arena where you want something capable of showing Blu-Ray HD/3D output via HDMI, not churn out masses of heat or fan-noise, fit in a low profile casing, run quite happily off a 300W PSU, and not kill your power bill. All the comparable ATI’s require a 400W PSU or better.

But yes, for modern gaming on a full size rig environments, this card doesn’t make sense.

I just came across this review, and I agree with the first poster: use cards in the same price/performance range to allow users to get an idea of why they MIGHT (or might not) need this card. I was looking forward to a comparison with the ATI Radeon HD 5570/5670. I’m sure many readers are interested in cards that would allow them to play games, yet don’t require an external power connector. Many store-bought computers still come with PSUs rated at less than 450W, and have no connectors for PCI-E graphics cards.

Since you’ve come to a conclusion that it is not suitable as a primary performance GPU (but without evidence relative to the 5670). Perhaps it might be worthwhile to focus on its relative performance as a dedicated CUDA/physx card. I’d be curious how this stacks up in that regards with the other 96sp cards: 8800gs, gt240 and the 430 (plus the gt220, 9600gt and 8800gt)

I honestly dont get what’s so piss poor about this card. Is the HD 4670 piss poor too? If so you’re probably just a rich snob. I recieved the gt 440 today, havent had the chance to try it due to work, but it’s stats seem to be significantly stronger than my 4670, in which case it will perform better. My 4670 already ran the games I play on high and ultra with 30 to 40 FPS. You cant sense any lag above 25FPS, hell, even 15 is acceptable in slower paced games. 80FPS is just ridiculous, it’s unnecessary if you’re poor. So this card, from what I can see, is not “piss poor”. It’s for gamers that can accept great and dont need OMGWTFOVERDONEPERFECT.

indeed.Just the fact that this is a 128 bit-bus en ddr5 make this a great entry card.
In most cases your better of with this one,than a 256 but-bus and gddr3.
You can also say that this card is faster dan a high end card ,from 3/4 years back.
Any way it is a nice entry card,no doubt .

This card is great.I’m going to buy it for replacement with my old x1550(Ati sucks)..I think it will work for you Kossa.And for the ones who said this card it’s not for gaming…mhm come on It Rocks! Perfect upgrade for low bugget.Buy it! 🙂

Sigh so much talk that this card sucks. But wtf shall I do, I got and old PC with a burned up GPU and 300W. I can’t afford a better card for 150$+ which require me to also buy a new PCU for 80$ which I have no competence to install at all. WTF give me 3000$ and I would buy all your wtfpawnstuff instant!

since in my country computer hardware is very expensive, I got this card for $120.
Compared to my old Nvidia 7100GS 512mb its like 200% better, so gtfo if u bitch about this card.
Even with my old CPU (Pentium D 3.7 ghz and yes im getting a core 2 duo soon) I run black ops maxed with 4x anti alliasting and with my max screen res- 1360×768 at 23-60 FPS. And I run FEAR 3 maxed at 25-50 FPS. And as you can see, this card isnt that crappy at all- the GTX580 ran crysis at 77fps while the GT440- 35 fps that is- the best GPU on planet is only like 55-60% better.

I installed a Asus GT440 brand new out of the box.
For some reason the cd that came with the graphics card didn’t work in my cd player. I downloaded the drivers from the internet and installed them. Wow what a difference. The only problem I had was I lost my sound. No sound what so ever. I checked my drivers and they are gone and windows vista cant find my existing onboard sound hardware. My computer is a HP Pavilion a6177c TV pc. Can anyone help?? You guys sound pretty smart here

I don’t agree with this review. I use this card for playing whatever game I want, RE5 runs like butter average 60fps with this card, hell I’m even playing Skyrim at high settings with this! It may not be the greatest card on the market but it does a nice job with games.

I think playing games doesn’t rely on graphics card alone, I also use this card and performs very well, Battlefield 3, Shift 2 Unleashed,and crysis 2! Shooting games at mid settings, racing games at full! I double my fps by overclocking my Processor, I have AMD Athlon 2 x2 250, 3.0 ghz, dual core, pretty much on the entry level, i oc’ed at 3.9ghz, and ZOOM! Double FPS! All entry level hardware can still perform very well if u know what to do, some people just want to have bragging rights with their hardware, honestly, u can’t win tournaments with 100 fps… Kickass players with 30 fps will kill u in an instant!

I thought of buying a gt450 but then realised that i still need to increase my 250watts psu, so I decided to split the cash and go for a gt440 and a 450watts. I’m a great fan of nvidia cards, ‘Piss poor’, no i say.

Now the people in here that are saying that this card is shit are more then likley little kids with very rich mumey and dady so they get the best witch is not needed.
there is not oner game out at the moment that the gt440 can not run. gtx560 580 & 590 u dont need them i was gonner get one but when i saw the price i though why would i spend that much on somethink so not needed so i got this.
and i run all and any game out at the min and will be able to for some years yet, i dont even have a wiked computer but it is godd and this is a good card a good price and there is a big market for this they have sold so many so go for it dont listen to thes little kids i play all my games on high or max out and i am never getting less the 25fps no lie so get it good card a good for gaming.
all they are is ppl giving it a bad name to put u off well fuck them they dont know what they talking about because they dont have to work to get there things were as most normale ppl do.
it is a good card go for it i did and i dont regret it have a look on ebay that is the best place to get it and i would say go for the asus one cos u can overclcok it and bleave me it overclocks like a beast mine at the min is at 980Mhz core clock and even stock it is so good i am just obsesed with overclocking stuff
have fun it wont let u down
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Bizzle

I truely agree with bizzle . gt 440 is really a great video card for entry lvl of gamer , gddr 5memory type with 65power supply is unbeatable and 3200mhz memory bus , around 90 dallors, no other card can reach this . Getting around 30fps is enough and playble for latest game. It is unnecessary for getting more than 40fps or your mom and daddy are just too rich . it is really good for installing in a computer that with low psu .
last I have been looking for this card for a long time .